Train Bombs at Mumbai

by R. D. Ashby



Anywhere else It's a remote misfortune: the main reaction. The reportage is cramped Images squeezed To affected train sections. Survivors crowd the carnage Visitors themselves To the horror and the shock. Between yesterday and tomorrow The cracked open problem The trains hadn't noticed. Dead and injured The only reliable evidence To be gathered. Mourning is not a statistic It fills the world Of a crouching figure. Questions will be asked Answers given None undo what's done. But revival there will be This is a lesson Evil is destined never to learn.

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